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[quote author=stupac2 link=topic=12310.msg121555#msg121555 date=1435603722]
I've never looked too deeply into this, but it makes sense to me. That money has to be going somewhere, and it's not like there are all that many more Profs (or buildings).

Properly answering this takes many more words than anyone here wants to read.

The short answer is that i) there is a lot of tuition pressure but it's more political and less market pressure, ii) administration broadly speaking has taken a much larger share of university budgets over the past 40 years (partially mandated by state and federal rules), and iii) professors take a correspondingly smaller share of university budgets (see the rise of adjuncts, etc.).
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If you are saying a lot of it has to do with federal intervention, rules, etc then I agree.  True at all levels.  In our district the salary budget is heavily weighted in the administrative offices.  Teachers get laid off but rarely administrators.  Not blaming the adminestrators per se, because they have to follow these rules, "suggestions," etc, but our district has increased the number of paid dietitians, etc. by 10 fold in the past 5 years or so.  Yet the kids are as fat or fatter than ever.  The kids just won't eat the swill they are given or forced to buy so binge on candy on their way home.the only food I have seen in this country nary worse than Wilbur, 1965/1966 is the local school lunchrooms.  Only one reason Washington politicians don't send their own kids to public school.

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[quote author=stupac2 link=topic=12310.msg121555#msg121555 date=1435603722]
I've never looked too deeply into this, but it makes sense to me. That money has to be going somewhere, and it's not like there are all that many more Profs (or buildings).

Properly answering this takes many more words than anyone here wants to read.

The short answer is that i) there is a lot of tuition pressure but it's more political and less market pressure, ii) administration broadly speaking has taken a much larger share of university budgets over the past 40 years (partially mandated by state and federal rules), and iii) professors take a correspondingly smaller share of university budgets (see the rise of adjuncts, etc.).
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If you are saying a lot of it has to do with federal intervention, rules, etc then I agree.  True at all levels.  In our district the salary budget is heavily weighted in the administrative offices.  Teachers get laid off but rarely administrators.  Not blaming the adminestrators per se, because they have to follow these rules, "suggestions," etc, but our district has increased the number of paid dietitians, etc. by 10 fold in the past 5 years or so.  Yet the kids are as fat or fatter than ever.  The kids just won't eat the swill they are given or forced to buy so binge on candy on their way home.the only food I have seen in this country nary worse than Wilbur, 1965/1966 is the local school lunchrooms.  Only one reason Washington politicians don't send their own kids to public school.